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    If you raise meat chickens and turkeys to sell, what do you charge?

    Quote: See, now that seems reasonable.
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    If you raise meat chickens and turkeys to sell, what do you charge?

    I think one of the most important things when selling anything is to find out how much you would need to charge to break even. So see if you can calculate how many bags of feed you bought, the cost of new bedding, and any other expenses, and then divide it by the number of birds you have. This...
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    OK we have the best...the worst movie you ever saw

    The starfighters. It's an old black and white movie with NO PLOT. Seriously it's just planes flying and some smalltalk and then it's just over. I know you can see the MST3K version of it on Hulu, but even with the lovable riffing it's still boring as hell.
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    Homemade Yogurt **Updated** Cheese and Buttermilk

    Quote: Yogurt is pretty easy enough to make without a kit, but I've never tried to make hard cheese. I'd advise you to look around for other kits or at least do a search on the kit components to see how much they usually go for. Books and online resources are also probably the best way to...
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    Ol' Home Remedies

    Quote: I actually like to use backing soda and an alcohol based mouthwash. It dries faster and I imagine helps take some of the poison out. Although I have to admit some of these home remedies make me a little wary. Hydrogen peroxide is one of those chemicals I reserve for cleaning only. It...
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    "Old-hen meat fed to pets and schoolkids"

    Robin'sBrood : I don't think it's the age of the birds that is in question here, I think it's the health of those layers. Of course, there is no telling how healthy the broilers we get from the grocery store are either... That's just it though, meat in the supermarket has a good chance of...
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    "Old-hen meat fed to pets and schoolkids"

    I like the old meat. It has character enough to stand up to a mole. Plus it can take a yogurt marinade without dissolving.
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    Unusual gifts for the hard to buy for person

    I usually buy things that I know will be useful or fun consumables for the hard to buy types. I've gotten people tea samplers including a cute tea pot and infuser, flannel sheets, a large jug of Dr. Bronner's Soap and other assorted PCP's, and reusable cloth menstrual pads. I have to admit the...
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    What to feed a mixed age flock?

    Thanks to both of you. I was starting to worry about having to separate my coop and run by age in order to keep things straight. When I'm ready to buy I'll check out what my feed stores have in stock and decide between gamebird and flock feeder then. Depending on how things are going I might...
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    Anyone make sauerkraut out there?

    I've tried to make it three times, I've only succeeded once. I usually only have time to make it during the summer so I have a hard time keeping the temperature down and so it starts out fine but the water gets cloudy a week in, and then an off taste develops. The batch that didn't spoil was the...
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    The EE braggers thread!!!

    Has anyone had any luck getting EE's from TSC? They list them as Amerucuana's on there site, but they are most likely EE's right? Also, when you breed EE does the egg coloration tend to go back towards brown i.e. is blue/green eggs a recessive trait? When I get my first chicks I think I...
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    What to feed a mixed age flock?

    I've read in other posts that many use gamebird feed, but I haven't seen any explain why. Is the higher protein content good for the birds? Also, does only your laying hens eat the oystershell?
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    Suggestions on a good read?

    Dandelion Wine- Ray Bradbury (short lighthearted novel, my favorite for a long time) Autism's False Prophets- Paul Offit (non-fiction) "Colored" Fairy Books- Andrew Lang (fairy tale collection) Leaves of Grass- Walt Whitman (poetry) The Ancestor's Tale- Richard Dawkins (scientific non-fiction) V...
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    What are you READING?

    Clockwork- Phillip Pullman Remembereance of Things Past- Marcel Proust The Satanic Verses- Salman Rushdie The Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Slainger I usually read a few books at a time (and as you may have noticed I have rather eclectic taste). So I've got a big book for home, one to slip in my...
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    What to feed a mixed age flock?

    Hi, I've been thinking about raising chickens for awhile now, and I'm one of those people who like to research something thoroughly before I start. So this is something that I'm not going to have to worry about for awhile, but I'd like to know in case I need to take this into consideration when...
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